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Nro. 620,9m. Patented Mar. I4, :899.

T. A'. ENGLAND, new.

ILS. ENGLAND, Administratrix. CATTLE GUARD FOR BAILWAYS.

(Application led Tu'ly 27, 1897. Renewed Jan. 17, 1899;)

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-THOMAS ALLEN ENGLAND, OF DRAPER, UTAH; NANNIE S. ENGLAND AD- MINISTRATRIX OF SAID THOMAS ALLEN ENGLAND, DEOEASED.

CATTLE-GUARD FOR RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,901, dated March 14, 1899.

I Applfill fled J'uly 27, 1897. Renewed January 17, 1899. Serial No. 702,470. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS ALLEN ENG LAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Draper, in the Y county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cattle-Guards for Railways, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to cattle-guards for railways; and the object thereof is to provide a device of this class which is simple in construction and operation and which is also comparatively inexpensive, while being Well adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which-= Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of a railway provided with my improved cattleguard, and Fig. 2 a cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

In the drawings forming part of this speciication the separate parts of my improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each of the views, and in said drawings I have shown at 5 the rails of a railway-track and at 6 the ties by which said rails are supported, and in the practice of my invention I provide one of the ties 6 between the rails 5 with uprights or standards 7, in

which is mounted a shaft 8, provided centrally with an oblong crank 9, secured to the shaft 8, or to each end thereof, within the uprights orstandards 7, is a guard or frame consisting of horizontal bars 10, which,A extend transverselyof the track, any desired number of which may be employed, and cross-bars 11, secured to the shaft 8 and connecting the horizontal bars 10.

At apredetermined distance from the tie 6, with which the uprights r standards 7 are connected, are similar uprights or standards 12, which are shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and these uprights or standards are also provided wth a shaft 13, the central portion of which is formed .into a crank 14, and mounted between the rails of the track is a plate or board 15, to the under side of which are tween the rails of the track, and in this position of said parts if a horse, cow, or other animal were to step on the plate' or board 15 the guard connected with the shaft 8 and consisting of the horizontal bars 10 and the transverse bars 11 would be thrown upwardly into the position vshown in Fig. 2, this result being accomplished by the turning of the shaft 8, it being understood that the plate or board 15 is pivotally connected with the cranks 9 and 14 of the shafts 8 and 13 and that both saidshafts are turned by stepping on or applying pressure to the plate or board 15.

Mounted on the outside of each of the rails 5 of the track is' another plate or board 17, and each of these plates or boards 17 is supported by shafts 18 and 19, the latter being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The shafts 19 are provided with cranks 20, and the shafts 18 withcranks 2l, and the plates or boards 17 are provided `each with a depending plate or board 22, and the cranks 21of the shafts 18 and the cranks 20 of the shafts 19 pass through the plates or boards 22.

The shafts 18 are supported by standards 23 and the shafts 19 by uprights or standards 24, the latter being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and secured to the shafts 18 are guard-frames 25, which are also composed of horizontal rods or bars 26 and transverse 'rods 27, the latter being secured to the shafts 18, and the operation of the guards will be the same as that of the guard 28, which is in operative connection with the central plate or board 15.

Whenever pressure is applied to the plates or boards- 17, and this may be done by a horse,cow, or other animal stepping thereon, the guards 25 will be thrown upwardly,

as shown in Fig. 2, and when these guards 25 and 28 are thrown upwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, they will prevent the passage of an animal along the track, as will be readily un- 'derstood IOO My improved cattle-guard is simple in construction and operationand Well adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended, While being also comparatively inexpensive.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A cattle-guard for railway-tracks, consisting of three sets of shafts, one of which is mounted between the rails of the track, and the others outside thereof, said shafts being provided with cranks, plates or boards pivotally connected with said cranks and adapted to turn said shafts, said shafts at one end of said plates or boards being provided With guard-frames which are secured thereto, and which are normally held in a horizontal position, substantially as shown and described.

2. A cattle-guard for railway-tracks, coins prising shafts which are mounted trans- -versely of the track, one between the rails of 

